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Change of Date Announcement: Due to ongoing concerns over COVID-19, this event has now been postponed and the new date is 3rd - 4th September 2020. Please contact a member of the SMi Team for more information at customerservices@smi-online.co.uk.

SMi Group are proud to announce that the 15th annual Military Space Situational Awareness Conference will return to London on the 3rd and 4th September 2020.

Part of SMi’s newly launched Space Week, this conference will be held in conjunction with Small Satellites on the 1st and 2nd September to provide a holistic view of the new space environment.

As the leading conference in Europe dedicated to space surveillance, this year’s forum will once again bring together key stakeholders across the military, government and industry sectors to discuss how we build a collaborative approach to space management and Space Situational Awareness (SSA), at a time when the domain is increasingly congested with active satellites along with space debris and junk.

Similarly, as new LEO mega-constellations come online at an increasing rate, avoiding a repeat of the 2009 Iridium crash remains at the forefront of all industry professionals’ minds, as we attempt to ensure that necessary and responsible space exploration and development can continue for years to come.

Key focuses include space debris, space surveillance and tracking (SST), space weather, the impact of new mega-constellations and international partnerships in space.

Featuring 120+ attendees, 7+ hours of networking and an extensive exhibition space – once again this year’s conference will provide unparalleled chance to meet and greet all the key players in this important domain and remains a key calendar date for anyone involved in the satellite sector.

Hear from senior military, government and civil officials on the latest SST technological solutions being developed by the CSpoC and other operations centres, to enhance the security of space assets through domain awareness

Discuss what the emerging LEO constellations mean for space traffic management and how government and industry can build a collaborative approach to future space management

Listen to key allied partners from the US, Europe and APAC regions, where a holistic approach to SSA is being developed

Conference
programme

8:00 Registration & Coffee

8:50 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Sqn Ldr (Retd) Ralph “Dinz” Dinsley is a retired RAF officer with more than 32 years of active service as an Aerospace Battle Manager including 16 years as a surveillance of space practitioner and space situational awareness advocate. His final assignments included leading the RAF contribution to global SSA in 2 significant programmes. Dinz’s unique military experience is further underpinned, as a CAS Fellow, with an MA in Peace and Development from Leeds Metropolitan University; his dissertation covering "Critical Perspectives on UK Space Security". Since retirement from the military in September 2017 Dinz formed, and is now Executive Director of NorSS Ltd, an innovative Northumberland based SSA company. Additionally, he was one of the founding members of SAINTS (Situational Awareness Information National Technology Service) a group of NE tech companies developing SA for government, industry and academia. He is also an observer to the Hague Space Resource Governance Working Group.

10:00 Session Reserved for Gold Sponsor ExoAnalytic

10:30 Morning Coffee

11:00 UKSA Lines of Effort Within SSA

Emily Mills is the Domestic Space Surveillance & Tracking Lead for the UK Space Agency. She joined the UK Space Agency in 2018 on the EUSST programme and most recently became the UKSA lead on domestic space surveillance and tracking. She works to develop UK civil policy and collaborates closely with the UK military to grow the UK’s space surveillance capability into the future. Emily holds an MBiochem in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and since joining the Civil Service has worked in policy and project delivery in areas ranging from automated vehicles to flood risk management.

Current framework for space operations: SDSR 2015 and the Blackett Review

Collaboration in SSA

Debris mitigation

Look Ahead

11:30 Phantom Echoes

Mr Andrew Ash, SSA Lead, Dstl

Report on work being undertaken within the 5-eyes community as part of a collaborative SSA experiment called Phantom Echoes

Provide background to the experiment that aims to exploit sensors and algorithms from each nation to enhance coalition SSA decision making during GEO on-orbit servicing missions.

Describe the collaborative environment established for Phantom Echoes

Present our progress and results generated to date. This includes simulation of representative scenarios featuring a re-location in GEO as well as real-world observations collected during the Northrop-Grumen Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) mission.

Future plans for the collaboration and opportunities for wider community involvement.

12:00 Commercially Augmented Mission Operations for Enhanced SSA

Dr. Aristoff earned his undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Computer Science, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Aristoff joined Numerica Corporation in 2011, and he currently leads Numerica’s research, development, and transition of innovative solutions to improve the security, transparency, and sustainability of space. His team focuses on the detection, tracking, identification, and characterization of Earth-orbiting satellites, and on the design, deployment, and operation of a global network of remote robotic telescopes. Dr. Aristoff also played a major role in the development of a best-of-breed space surveillance tracking system, MFAST, which powers the Numerica Telescope Network and supports rapid uncorrelated track (UCT) processing for several space operations centers.

In March 2017, Mark was elected as the Chairman of the Space Data Association (SDA), an international organization that brings together satellite operators to support the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of data critical to the safety and integrity of the space environment. Mark, who has a Ph.D. in High Energy Astrophysics from the Durham University, joined Inmarsat in 2000. Between 2009 and 2017 he was the Head of Satellite Operations, responsible for Inmarsat’s geostationary telecommunication fleet. He is now responsible for the design, procurement and launch of Inmarsat’s future space segment assets.

Matthew is Chief Technology Officer at Goonhilly Earth Station ltd, where he works to expanding capabilities at the site including the deep space communications, orbit tracking and space situational awareness. He was previously Chief Communications Engineer for the QinetiQ UK's space group, where he was responsible for technical leadership of the planetary communications team, including the UHF transceiver on ESA's ExoMars project.

Matthew is the UK Space Agency representative for the Space Link Services area of Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) and the UK delegate for Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG).

14:45 Afternoon Tea

15:15 SSA for Emerging Space Operations in Africa

Eugene Avenant received his Bachelors of Engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1989. After his studies he joined the CSIR, Aerotek where he worked on RADAR front ends and Antenna systems. In 1999 he joined the Satellite Application Centre (a unit of the CSIR). His responsibilities was the upgrade and establishment of new TT&C, Image download stations and other satellite monitoring systems. CSIR SAC became incorporated into SANSA (South African National Space Agency) in 2011. He has also been involved in GNSS projects through the European Commission Frame Programme 6 and 7 and the UK Space Agency Industrial Participation Support Programme. He currently holds the position of Chief Engineer in the Space Operations unit where he oversees establishment projects and contributes to strategy and application programmes.

An introduction to the South African space programme: plans for development and where emerging space powers fit into the existing paradigm

16:15 Fraunhofer FHR’s Contribution to German SSA

The presentation explains the contribution of Fraunhofer FHR to the German national SSA capabilities. Fraunhofer FHR is operating the Tracking and Imaging Radar (TIRA) and developing the German Experimental Space Surveillance and Tracking Radar (GESTRA), both of which are an essential part of German military and civil SSA programmes. TIRA provides data about not only highly precise orbital elements of a space object but also its size, shape, orientation and attitude motion through high-resolution imaging, which makes it suitable for military reconnaissance applications. GESTRA is currently the most important development project of a new German SSA sensor, commissioned by the DLR Space Administration. GESTRA is a phased array or electronic scanning radar system for continuous and wide-space detection, tracking and measurement. It will be delivered to and operated by the German Space Situational Awareness Centre (GSSAC) to generate an independent catalogue of space objects and debris in the near-Earth environment.

Youngkyu Kim is working as spokesman of the business unit space at the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques in Germany. He represents the interests of the institute vis-à-vis German and European organisations in the field of space research, especially space situational awareness. He began his career at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in the Future Strategy Head Office and has an academic background in physics, and space policy and law.

16:45 Enhancing Space Security Through Effective SSA

Prior to his current position as deputy director of UCL’s Space Domain since November 2017, Serge was Senior Resident Fellow at ESPI since 2012, a European space policy think tank he started and ran in 2004, working on space governance, exploration policies, and space security. From 1998-2003, he was CNES’s director for international relations, then deputy director for strategy (2003-04).
A nuclear physicist for 12 years, he then turned to science & technology diplomacy, first at the French Ministry of External relations in 1981, and later as science & technology counsellor with French Embassies in India, Japan, US and UK.
He lectured in nuclear physics at Université d’Orsay, and in R&D innovation and technology economy at Université Paris-Dauphine, and at the French Business School ESSEC. He also lectures at UCL and at the International Space University in Strasbourg.
Serge authored/co-authored more than 60 publications and communications, and a book
He is a life member of the American Physical Society, founding member of Euroscience and member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is a Fellow of the French Institute for Advance Studies of National Defence (2004).
Serge is a Knight in the order of the Légion d’Honneur, and holds the Golden Rays in the order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan).

17:15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

Sqn Ldr (Retd) Ralph “Dinz” Dinsley is a retired RAF officer with more than 32 years of active service as an Aerospace Battle Manager including 16 years as a surveillance of space practitioner and space situational awareness advocate. His final assignments included leading the RAF contribution to global SSA in 2 significant programmes. Dinz’s unique military experience is further underpinned, as a CAS Fellow, with an MA in Peace and Development from Leeds Metropolitan University; his dissertation covering "Critical Perspectives on UK Space Security". Since retirement from the military in September 2017 Dinz formed, and is now Executive Director of NorSS Ltd, an innovative Northumberland based SSA company. Additionally, he was one of the founding members of SAINTS (Situational Awareness Information National Technology Service) a group of NE tech companies developing SA for government, industry and academia. He is also an observer to the Hague Space Resource Governance Working Group.

17:30 Drinks Reception Sponsored by ExoAnalytic

8:30 Registration & Coffee

8:50 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Mr. Gordon Kordyak is a Senior Materiel Leader and Chief of the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Division (SMC/SPG), which is a geographically separated unit of the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Special Programs Directorate (SMC/SP). In his position, Mr. Kordyak oversees four primary lines of effort in support of the broader USSF Enterprise: Space Domain Awareness space-based and ground-based sensing; legacy SDA command and control capability; ground-based Environmental Monitoring; and is the lead integrator for multiple Operational Centers to include the National Space Defense Center. In addition to his responsibilities with SMC, Mr. Kordyak is dual hatted as the USSF Executive Agent for SDA, appointed by the USSF Chief of Space Operations to integrate the end-to-end SDA enterprise at a MAJCOM level. Mr. Kordyak attended the University of Redlands and has a double bachelor’s degrees Mathematics and Political Science. He also has a Master’s degree in both International Relations and Business. Mr. Kordyak was commissioned in 2002 through the California State University San Bernardino Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp program. Upon separating from the Air Force, Mr. Kordyak served as a contractor providing technical advisory support to SMC before transitioning to be a senior civilian leader in the Space Superiority Systems (now Special Programs) Directorate.

9:00 ‘Strong, Secure and Engaged’: The Next Generation of Canadian Space Situational Awareness

Colonel Cam Stoltz enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1985. 1n 1989, following an initial two years at the Royal Roads Military College, he graduated from the Royal Canadian Military College in Kingston, Ontario with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Commissioned into the Communications and Electronics Branch, his first posting was to the Aerospace Maintenance Development Unit in Trenton. In 1992 he returned to RMC, obtaining a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. Transferred to Ottawa in 1994, he spent the following years providing engineering support to Air Traffic Control and satellite communications systems. Promoted to Major in 1998, he joined the Canadian Military Satellite Communications project as a Senior Engineer and would complete a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Ottawa before departing Ottawa.
Transferred to the Canadian Forces Joint Signal Regiment (CFJSR) in 2000, Colonel Stoltz would serve as Regimental Administration Officer, as well as Officer Commanding for both 3 and 4 Squadron. In April 2003, Colonel Stoltz took command of the Operation APOLLO National Command Control and Information Systems (NCCIS) Squadron in Camp Mirage. Upon return, he returned to Trenton and took command of 8 Air Communications and Control Squadron, a position he held until commencing the Canadian Forces Command and Staff Course in 2005.
In 2006, Colonel Stoltz was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and posted to Winnipeg, where he served as 1 Canadian Air Division / Canadian NORAD Region A6 and Headquarters Commanding Officer. Colonel Stoltz returned to Kingston and assumed command of the Canadian Forces Joint Signal Regiment in 2009. In 2012, following second language training, Colonel Stoltz returned to Ottawa as Director Strategic Communication Services. He was promoted to his current rank in 2013, and assumed the position of Director Air Support in 2015. In 2017, Colonel Stoltz was posted to his current position as Director Space Requirements.

Canada’s current SSA capability and the status of the SSA project

‘Strong at home, secure in North America and Engaged in the world’ the Canadian vision for engagement within space

SSA objectives: R&D in new space technologies and partnering with allied partners on space management

Royal Canadian Air Force space roadmap: planned MOU’s and development

Sapphire’s space surveillance capability and schedule for further launch

9:30 Commercial off the shelf satellite technology is rapidly evolving and can play a key role in Space Domain Awareness and International Space Traffic Management

Tom’s entire career has been focused on advanced technology with over 30 years in Space Systems, Advanced Computing, and Microelectronics. Tom is a founder and Executive Vice President of Trusted Space, Inc. a new innovative space mission engineering company. With a background in Operations Management, Tom has enjoyed broad success pioneering technology companies in rapidly evolving markets as technology drives new paradigms and business cases. Space Mission Development is a strong area of interest helping evolve commercial capabilities meet advanced mission objectives. Throughout his career Tom has led the transition from special purpose military systems to commercially augmented mission capability.

Tom is deeply involved in Space Domain Awareness (SDA), participating in research, development, and deployment programs since the 1980’s. He established pioneering commercial SDA solutions and establishing a broad portfolio of research and development, commercialization, and operational support programs.

Tom is active in international research and development projects and numerous NATO activities. He is particularly interested in the standards, best practices, and norms that space systems operators and space systems manufacturers undertake to enhance SDA and Space Traffic Management.

11:00 Morning Coffee

Mr. Waqar Zaidi is a principal orbit analyst for L3Harris. He has a 14-year history of working in spacecraft operations and researching various astrodynamics topics, including spacecraft navigation and trajectory design. He has helped place up to 20 geostationary spacecraft into their final operational orbits by performing their orbit estimation and maneuver calibration. He has led the navigation- and station-keeping phases of various NASA Earth Science missions with a special focus on automating their covariance realism techniques. He holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, respectively.

Safe, timely, and effective space domain awareness (SDA) requires resilient architecture and a means to exchange data/analytics through a robust message handling system

Given an adverse set of conditions, which might otherwise limit the dissemination of critical information for a sudden event (e.g. breakup), SDA resiliency increases the probability of mission success by decreasing periods of reduced capability

An SDA message handling system enables the timely passing of relevant information between space agencies, academia and commercial spacecraft operators

A major goal for SDA resiliency is to resolve the “big data problem" by properly qualifying space object estimation (that uses multi-phenomenology data) and quantifying its resulting uncertainty

Qualifying space object estimation resolves what minimal set of data are required to address a specific critical need and ensure the derived products are produced and disseminated on an operationally favorable timeline

Jan Siminski joined ESA's Space Debris Office in 2015. He is contributing to ESA and national SST projects, e.g. radar design in terms of cataloguing capabilities, processing chain development, and statistical qualification. Additionally, he provides collision avoidance support to internal and external missions, contributes to the development of the conjunction warning system and to the preparation of future collision avoidance automation activities. He received his PhD from the Bundeswehr University Munich about measurement correlation and orbit determination. The dissertation research was conducted in the SSA group of DLR/GSOC in support of the build-up of an optical surveillance network.

Active collision avoidance as a routine task in space operations and space surveillance data’s role in supporting this capability

Sustainability of the model: with an increasing need for manoeuvres – the case for a more automated system

CREAM (Collision Risk Estimation and Automated Mitigation) current progress of the programme and technology demonstrations

Reducing operator error, false alerts and time between close approach and decision

Dr Pascal Faucher is graduated (1997) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (SUPAERO). He also holds a Master’s Degree (1998) and a Ph. D. in Physical Oceanography (2001) by the University Paul Sabatier, funded by the Ministry of Defence, and an Executive Master of Business Administration (2007) by ESCP Europe. After a post-doctoral position in the EU project “Marine Environment and Security for the European Area”, his experience includes 19 years of various positions at CNES headquarters as international relations advisor and programme manager. For the last 10 years, in the defence and security office, he is responsible for the following themes: space security, space situational awareness, space surveillance and tracking, space debris and space weather. He is currently the Chairman of the European Space Surveillance and Tracking Consortium. He also acts as a French delegate to the Programme Board SSA of ESA, the Steering Group of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the Steering Committee of the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG), the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), participating to the Working Group on the Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (WG LTS). In France, he chairs the National Coordination Group on Space Weather (GCME). He is a member of the French Steering Group on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN).

Mr Marc Becker is a policy officer in the Department of Space Situational Awareness at DLR Space Administration in Bonn, Germany. He chairs the European Space Surveillance & Tracking (EU SST) Consortium’s internal Security Committee since 2019, dealing in particular with security and policy requirements for the handling and sharing of SST data. Prior to this, he worked with the German Ministry of Defence’s Directorate General for Security and Defence Policy as a desk officer for space security policy. Marc holds a Master of International Affairs with a focus on international security and technology policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.

14:30 Protecting Space Infrastructure Through Effective SST

Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, PhD (Romania) is since June 2019 the Director of the European Union Satellite Centre (SATCEN). He has previously held the position of NATO Assistant Secretary General and head of NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges. He also served as Romania’s ambassador to NATO, the USA and the United Nations, having a longstanding experience in global affairs. Ambassador Ducaru has been also engaged in academic and think-tank activity as associate or guest lecturer at the National University for Political Studies (Bucharest), NATO Defence College (Rome), as Special Advisor to the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He has published numerous studies and articles on global affairs issues, in particular on the impact of new technologies upon security. He holds degrees both in computer studies and political science.

What SSA means: monitoring the location and function of space objects and space weather phenomena

The SST support framework adopted within EU Space Policy

Operating and maintaining a sensor function to survey and track objects

SatCen as the component in EUSST capability

PASS (preparation for the establishment of a Europe SST Service Provision Function) – transitioning to a holistic SST capability

Collaboration with partner agencies across Europe

15:00 Afternoon Tea

15:30 The MOSWOC in Support of Space Operations

Simon Machin is the Met Office Space Weather Programme Manager and lead for Defence and Security, having worked within the Met Office on space weather impacts relevant to defence for over a decade.
The Met Office is the national weather service in the UK and owns of the space weather risk on behalf of the UK government. The Met Office role is to increase the awareness and knowledge of space weather and to deliver space weather products and services to UK government departments, critical infrastructure providers and members of the public.
Simon is responsible for the coordination and direction of scientific research to operations, leading to the delivery of space weather services aligned to customer requirements. This is achieved through understanding of impact, effect and mitigations alongside appropriate means of communication to deliver high value services, underpinned by robust science, to users from across the defence community.

Space weather as a driver for the communication, navigation and earth observation tools applied on the ground

SWPC MoU and shared capability development and training with NOAA

An introduction to the MOSWOC: integration with the Met Office Operations Centre and modelling and analysis conducted

Risk mitigation from extreme space weather events and its role in enhancing space security

16:00 Monitoring Space Weather as a Key Enabler for Holistic SSA

Bob Rutledge is the Lead of the Space Weather Forecast Office at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). Prior to joining SWPC, Bob worked at NASA's Johnson Space Center as the International Space Station (ISS) Radiation System Manager, responsible for oversight of the development and sustaining engineering of NASA's operational radiation measurement hardware onboard ISS. Bob began his career at NASA with the Space Radiation Analysis Group with responsibilities spanning planning, modeling, measurement, and operational management of astronaut radiation exposures. Bob received his degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.

Activity trends in space weather events – major solar events and its impact on LEO and GEO assets

16:30 ‘Top 40 Rules to Fight and Win the Next Space War’

Mr. Szymanski has 46 years’ experience in missile and space control policy, strategy, simulations, surveillance, resilience, threat assessment, long-range strategic planning, and command and control. In addition, he has a comprehensive experience base, having worked with multiple services (Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines), civilian agencies (NASA, DARPA, FEMA), and from the Pentagon (Secretary of the Air Force) to systems development (Space and Missile Systems Center - SMC/ASP/XRJ), technology development (Air Force Research Lab) to operational field test (China Lake Naval Test Center). This gives him a unique perspective in understanding divergent issues associated with each step of DOD procurement processes.

Based on the author’s 43 years’ experience in space warfare weapons systems development, and 50 years studying military history, he has developed general rules that would characterize future space conflicts. Over this time, the author has studied outer space warfare theory, principles, policy, doctrine, strategies and tactics. This briefing will summarize some of his findings on this critical topic.

17:00 Operating Against Near-Peer Adversaries: Implications for SSA

Dr. Brendan Mulvaney is currently the Director of the China Aerospace Studies Institute at National Defense University. He was a Marine for a quarter of a century, where he flew more than 2000 hours as an AH-1W Cobra pilot, and was an Olmsted Scholar in Shanghai, China.

He enlisted in 1991 and was commissioned in 1993 after graduating from UC San Diego. He earned his Master’s in Leadership from the University of San Diego in 2002, and was selected as one of three Marine Olmsted Scholars for 2003. He studied at Fudan University in Shanghai, China from 2003-2005 where he earned his Ph.D. in International Relations.

He served several tours in California, Iraq, Japan, and the Western Pacific. He served as the first Director of the Commandant’s Red Team, and supervised the implementation of Red Teaming in the Marine Corps. In 2013 he transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was the Associate Chair for the Languages and Cultures Department, and taught Mandarin Chinese, Chinese culture, and cross-cultural literacy.

He and his wife, Samantha, have twin twelve-year old boys, Sean and Ryan, and live in Alexandria, VA

Current contested, competitive and congested landscape for space: what this means in a near-peer environment

Understanding China’s ASAT and space capabilities and what it means for the NATO-aligned space warfighting doctrine

17:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

Mr. Gordon Kordyak is a Senior Materiel Leader and Chief of the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Division (SMC/SPG), which is a geographically separated unit of the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Special Programs Directorate (SMC/SP). In his position, Mr. Kordyak oversees four primary lines of effort in support of the broader USSF Enterprise: Space Domain Awareness space-based and ground-based sensing; legacy SDA command and control capability; ground-based Environmental Monitoring; and is the lead integrator for multiple Operational Centers to include the National Space Defense Center. In addition to his responsibilities with SMC, Mr. Kordyak is dual hatted as the USSF Executive Agent for SDA, appointed by the USSF Chief of Space Operations to integrate the end-to-end SDA enterprise at a MAJCOM level. Mr. Kordyak attended the University of Redlands and has a double bachelor’s degrees Mathematics and Political Science. He also has a Master’s degree in both International Relations and Business. Mr. Kordyak was commissioned in 2002 through the California State University San Bernardino Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp program. Upon separating from the Air Force, Mr. Kordyak served as a contractor providing technical advisory support to SMC before transitioning to be a senior civilian leader in the Space Superiority Systems (now Special Programs) Directorate.

Dr Pascal Faucher is graduated (1997) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (SUPAERO). He also holds a Master’s Degree (1998) and a Ph. D. in Physical Oceanography (2001) by the University Paul Sabatier, funded by the Ministry of Defence, and an Executive Master of Business Administration (2007) by ESCP Europe. After a post-doctoral position in the EU project “Marine Environment and Security for the European Area”, his experience includes 19 years of various positions at CNES headquarters as international relations advisor and programme manager. For the last 10 years, in the defence and security office, he is responsible for the following themes: space security, space situational awareness, space surveillance and tracking, space debris and space weather. He is currently the Chairman of the European Space Surveillance and Tracking Consortium. He also acts as a French delegate to the Programme Board SSA of ESA, the Steering Group of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the Steering Committee of the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG), the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), participating to the Working Group on the Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (WG LTS). In France, he chairs the National Coordination Group on Space Weather (GCME). He is a member of the French Steering Group on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN).

Eugene Avenant received his Bachelors of Engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1989. After his studies he joined the CSIR, Aerotek where he worked on RADAR front ends and Antenna systems. In 1999 he joined the Satellite Application Centre (a unit of the CSIR). His responsibilities was the upgrade and establishment of new TT&C, Image download stations and other satellite monitoring systems. CSIR SAC became incorporated into SANSA (South African National Space Agency) in 2011. He has also been involved in GNSS projects through the European Commission Frame Programme 6 and 7 and the UK Space Agency Industrial Participation Support Programme. He currently holds the position of Chief Engineer in the Space Operations unit where he oversees establishment projects and contributes to strategy and application programmes.

Mr. Gordon Kordyak is a Senior Materiel Leader and Chief of the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Division (SMC/SPG), which is a geographically separated unit of the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Special Programs Directorate (SMC/SP). In his position, Mr. Kordyak oversees four primary lines of effort in support of the broader USSF Enterprise: Space Domain Awareness space-based and ground-based sensing; legacy SDA command and control capability; ground-based Environmental Monitoring; and is the lead integrator for multiple Operational Centers to include the National Space Defense Center. In addition to his responsibilities with SMC, Mr. Kordyak is dual hatted as the USSF Executive Agent for SDA, appointed by the USSF Chief of Space Operations to integrate the end-to-end SDA enterprise at a MAJCOM level. Mr. Kordyak attended the University of Redlands and has a double bachelor’s degrees Mathematics and Political Science. He also has a Master’s degree in both International Relations and Business. Mr. Kordyak was commissioned in 2002 through the California State University San Bernardino Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp program. Upon separating from the Air Force, Mr. Kordyak served as a contractor providing technical advisory support to SMC before transitioning to be a senior civilian leader in the Space Superiority Systems (now Special Programs) Directorate.

Ambassador Sorin Ducaru

Director, European Union Satellite Centre

Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, PhD (Romania) is since June 2019 the Director of the European Union Satellite Centre (SATCEN). He has previously held the position of NATO Assistant Secretary General and head of NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges. He also served as Romania’s ambassador to NATO, the USA and the United Nations, having a longstanding experience in global affairs. Ambassador Ducaru has been also engaged in academic and think-tank activity as associate or guest lecturer at the National University for Political Studies (Bucharest), NATO Defence College (Rome), as Special Advisor to the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He has published numerous studies and articles on global affairs issues, in particular on the impact of new technologies upon security. He holds degrees both in computer studies and political science.

Brigadier General Friedrich Teichmann

Director Geospatial Institute, Austrian Armed Forces

Colonel Cameron Stoltz

Director Space Requirements, Canadian Armed Forces

Colonel Cam Stoltz enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1985. 1n 1989, following an initial two years at the Royal Roads Military College, he graduated from the Royal Canadian Military College in Kingston, Ontario with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Commissioned into the Communications and Electronics Branch, his first posting was to the Aerospace Maintenance Development Unit in Trenton. In 1992 he returned to RMC, obtaining a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. Transferred to Ottawa in 1994, he spent the following years providing engineering support to Air Traffic Control and satellite communications systems. Promoted to Major in 1998, he joined the Canadian Military Satellite Communications project as a Senior Engineer and would complete a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Ottawa before departing Ottawa.
Transferred to the Canadian Forces Joint Signal Regiment (CFJSR) in 2000, Colonel Stoltz would serve as Regimental Administration Officer, as well as Officer Commanding for both 3 and 4 Squadron. In April 2003, Colonel Stoltz took command of the Operation APOLLO National Command Control and Information Systems (NCCIS) Squadron in Camp Mirage. Upon return, he returned to Trenton and took command of 8 Air Communications and Control Squadron, a position he held until commencing the Canadian Forces Command and Staff Course in 2005.
In 2006, Colonel Stoltz was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and posted to Winnipeg, where he served as 1 Canadian Air Division / Canadian NORAD Region A6 and Headquarters Commanding Officer. Colonel Stoltz returned to Kingston and assumed command of the Canadian Forces Joint Signal Regiment in 2009. In 2012, following second language training, Colonel Stoltz returned to Ottawa as Director Strategic Communication Services. He was promoted to his current rank in 2013, and assumed the position of Director Air Support in 2015. In 2017, Colonel Stoltz was posted to his current position as Director Space Requirements.

Dr Brendan S. Mulvaney

Director, China Aerospace Studies Institute

Dr. Brendan Mulvaney is currently the Director of the China Aerospace Studies Institute at National Defense University. He was a Marine for a quarter of a century, where he flew more than 2000 hours as an AH-1W Cobra pilot, and was an Olmsted Scholar in Shanghai, China.

He enlisted in 1991 and was commissioned in 1993 after graduating from UC San Diego. He earned his Master’s in Leadership from the University of San Diego in 2002, and was selected as one of three Marine Olmsted Scholars for 2003. He studied at Fudan University in Shanghai, China from 2003-2005 where he earned his Ph.D. in International Relations.

He served several tours in California, Iraq, Japan, and the Western Pacific. He served as the first Director of the Commandant’s Red Team, and supervised the implementation of Red Teaming in the Marine Corps. In 2013 he transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was the Associate Chair for the Languages and Cultures Department, and taught Mandarin Chinese, Chinese culture, and cross-cultural literacy.

He and his wife, Samantha, have twin twelve-year old boys, Sean and Ryan, and live in Alexandria, VA

Dr Doug Hendrix

CEO, ExoAnalytic Solutions

Dr Jaime Stearns

Space Control Mission Lead, Air Force Research Lab

Dr Jan Siminski

Space Debris Engineer, Space Debris Office, ESA

Jan Siminski joined ESA's Space Debris Office in 2015. He is contributing to ESA and national SST projects, e.g. radar design in terms of cataloguing capabilities, processing chain development, and statistical qualification. Additionally, he provides collision avoidance support to internal and external missions, contributes to the development of the conjunction warning system and to the preparation of future collision avoidance automation activities. He received his PhD from the Bundeswehr University Munich about measurement correlation and orbit determination. The dissertation research was conducted in the SSA group of DLR/GSOC in support of the build-up of an optical surveillance network.

Dr Jeff Aristoff

Vice President, Space Systems, Numerica Corporation

Dr. Aristoff earned his undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Computer Science, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Aristoff joined Numerica Corporation in 2011, and he currently leads Numerica’s research, development, and transition of innovative solutions to improve the security, transparency, and sustainability of space. His team focuses on the detection, tracking, identification, and characterization of Earth-orbiting satellites, and on the design, deployment, and operation of a global network of remote robotic telescopes. Dr. Aristoff also played a major role in the development of a best-of-breed space surveillance tracking system, MFAST, which powers the Numerica Telescope Network and supports rapid uncorrelated track (UCT) processing for several space operations centers.

Dr Pascal Faucher

Chairman EU SST Consortium, CNES

Dr Pascal Faucher is graduated (1997) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (SUPAERO). He also holds a Master’s Degree (1998) and a Ph. D. in Physical Oceanography (2001) by the University Paul Sabatier, funded by the Ministry of Defence, and an Executive Master of Business Administration (2007) by ESCP Europe. After a post-doctoral position in the EU project “Marine Environment and Security for the European Area”, his experience includes 19 years of various positions at CNES headquarters as international relations advisor and programme manager. For the last 10 years, in the defence and security office, he is responsible for the following themes: space security, space situational awareness, space surveillance and tracking, space debris and space weather. He is currently the Chairman of the European Space Surveillance and Tracking Consortium. He also acts as a French delegate to the Programme Board SSA of ESA, the Steering Group of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the Steering Committee of the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG), the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), participating to the Working Group on the Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (WG LTS). In France, he chairs the National Coordination Group on Space Weather (GCME). He is a member of the French Steering Group on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN).

Lieutenant Colonel Walter Villadei

Head of Space Policy and Operations , Italian Air Force

Lieutenant David Buehler

Mr Andrew Ash

SSA Lead, Dstl

Mr Eugene Avenant

Chief Engineer, Space Operations, South African National Space Agency

Eugene Avenant received his Bachelors of Engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1989. After his studies he joined the CSIR, Aerotek where he worked on RADAR front ends and Antenna systems. In 1999 he joined the Satellite Application Centre (a unit of the CSIR). His responsibilities was the upgrade and establishment of new TT&C, Image download stations and other satellite monitoring systems. CSIR SAC became incorporated into SANSA (South African National Space Agency) in 2011. He has also been involved in GNSS projects through the European Commission Frame Programme 6 and 7 and the UK Space Agency Industrial Participation Support Programme. He currently holds the position of Chief Engineer in the Space Operations unit where he oversees establishment projects and contributes to strategy and application programmes.

Mr Gordon Ray Kordyak

Mr. Gordon Kordyak is a Senior Materiel Leader and Chief of the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Division (SMC/SPG), which is a geographically separated unit of the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Special Programs Directorate (SMC/SP). In his position, Mr. Kordyak oversees four primary lines of effort in support of the broader USSF Enterprise: Space Domain Awareness space-based and ground-based sensing; legacy SDA command and control capability; ground-based Environmental Monitoring; and is the lead integrator for multiple Operational Centers to include the National Space Defense Center. In addition to his responsibilities with SMC, Mr. Kordyak is dual hatted as the USSF Executive Agent for SDA, appointed by the USSF Chief of Space Operations to integrate the end-to-end SDA enterprise at a MAJCOM level. Mr. Kordyak attended the University of Redlands and has a double bachelor’s degrees Mathematics and Political Science. He also has a Master’s degree in both International Relations and Business. Mr. Kordyak was commissioned in 2002 through the California State University San Bernardino Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp program. Upon separating from the Air Force, Mr. Kordyak served as a contractor providing technical advisory support to SMC before transitioning to be a senior civilian leader in the Space Superiority Systems (now Special Programs) Directorate.

Mr Marc Becker

Chairman EU SST Security Committee, DLR Space Administration

Mr Marc Becker is a policy officer in the Department of Space Situational Awareness at DLR Space Administration in Bonn, Germany. He chairs the European Space Surveillance & Tracking (EU SST) Consortium’s internal Security Committee since 2019, dealing in particular with security and policy requirements for the handling and sharing of SST data. Prior to this, he worked with the German Ministry of Defence’s Directorate General for Security and Defence Policy as a desk officer for space security policy. Marc holds a Master of International Affairs with a focus on international security and technology policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.

Mr Mark Dickinson

Chairman, Space Data Association

In March 2017, Mark was elected as the Chairman of the Space Data Association (SDA), an international organization that brings together satellite operators to support the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of data critical to the safety and integrity of the space environment. Mark, who has a Ph.D. in High Energy Astrophysics from the Durham University, joined Inmarsat in 2000. Between 2009 and 2017 he was the Head of Satellite Operations, responsible for Inmarsat’s geostationary telecommunication fleet. He is now responsible for the design, procurement and launch of Inmarsat’s future space segment assets.

Mr Matthew Cosby

Chief Technology Officer , Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd

Matthew is Chief Technology Officer at Goonhilly Earth Station ltd, where he works to expanding capabilities at the site including the deep space communications, orbit tracking and space situational awareness. He was previously Chief Communications Engineer for the QinetiQ UK's space group, where he was responsible for technical leadership of the planetary communications team, including the UHF transceiver on ESA's ExoMars project.

Matthew is the UK Space Agency representative for the Space Link Services area of Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) and the UK delegate for Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG).

Mr Paul Szymanski

President, Space Strategies Center

Mr. Szymanski has 46 years’ experience in missile and space control policy, strategy, simulations, surveillance, resilience, threat assessment, long-range strategic planning, and command and control. In addition, he has a comprehensive experience base, having worked with multiple services (Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines), civilian agencies (NASA, DARPA, FEMA), and from the Pentagon (Secretary of the Air Force) to systems development (Space and Missile Systems Center - SMC/ASP/XRJ), technology development (Air Force Research Lab) to operational field test (China Lake Naval Test Center). This gives him a unique perspective in understanding divergent issues associated with each step of DOD procurement processes.

Mr Robert Rutledge

Lead, Space Weather Forecast Office, US National Weather Service

Bob Rutledge is the Lead of the Space Weather Forecast Office at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). Prior to joining SWPC, Bob worked at NASA's Johnson Space Center as the International Space Station (ISS) Radiation System Manager, responsible for oversight of the development and sustaining engineering of NASA's operational radiation measurement hardware onboard ISS. Bob began his career at NASA with the Space Radiation Analysis Group with responsibilities spanning planning, modeling, measurement, and operational management of astronaut radiation exposures. Bob received his degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.

Mr Simon Machin

Met Office Space Weather Programme Manager, UK MET Office

Simon Machin is the Met Office Space Weather Programme Manager and lead for Defence and Security, having worked within the Met Office on space weather impacts relevant to defence for over a decade.
The Met Office is the national weather service in the UK and owns of the space weather risk on behalf of the UK government. The Met Office role is to increase the awareness and knowledge of space weather and to deliver space weather products and services to UK government departments, critical infrastructure providers and members of the public.
Simon is responsible for the coordination and direction of scientific research to operations, leading to the delivery of space weather services aligned to customer requirements. This is achieved through understanding of impact, effect and mitigations alongside appropriate means of communication to deliver high value services, underpinned by robust science, to users from across the defence community.

Mr Tom Kubancik

Consultant , Blue Canyon Technologies

Tom’s entire career has been focused on advanced technology with over 30 years in Space Systems, Advanced Computing, and Microelectronics. Tom is a founder and Executive Vice President of Trusted Space, Inc. a new innovative space mission engineering company. With a background in Operations Management, Tom has enjoyed broad success pioneering technology companies in rapidly evolving markets as technology drives new paradigms and business cases. Space Mission Development is a strong area of interest helping evolve commercial capabilities meet advanced mission objectives. Throughout his career Tom has led the transition from special purpose military systems to commercially augmented mission capability.

Tom is deeply involved in Space Domain Awareness (SDA), participating in research, development, and deployment programs since the 1980’s. He established pioneering commercial SDA solutions and establishing a broad portfolio of research and development, commercialization, and operational support programs.

Tom is active in international research and development projects and numerous NATO activities. He is particularly interested in the standards, best practices, and norms that space systems operators and space systems manufacturers undertake to enhance SDA and Space Traffic Management.

Mr Waqar Zaidi

Principal Orbit Analyst, L3Harris

Mr. Waqar Zaidi is a principal orbit analyst for L3Harris. He has a 14-year history of working in spacecraft operations and researching various astrodynamics topics, including spacecraft navigation and trajectory design. He has helped place up to 20 geostationary spacecraft into their final operational orbits by performing their orbit estimation and maneuver calibration. He has led the navigation- and station-keeping phases of various NASA Earth Science missions with a special focus on automating their covariance realism techniques. He holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, respectively.

Mr Youngkyu Kim

Spokesman of the Business Unit Space, Fraunhofer FHR

Youngkyu Kim is working as spokesman of the business unit space at the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques in Germany. He represents the interests of the institute vis-à-vis German and European organisations in the field of space research, especially space situational awareness. He began his career at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in the Future Strategy Head Office and has an academic background in physics, and space policy and law.

Ms Emily Mills

Domestic Space Surveillance & Tracking Lead, UK Space Agency

Emily Mills is the Domestic Space Surveillance & Tracking Lead for the UK Space Agency. She joined the UK Space Agency in 2018 on the EUSST programme and most recently became the UKSA lead on domestic space surveillance and tracking. She works to develop UK civil policy and collaborates closely with the UK military to grow the UK’s space surveillance capability into the future. Emily holds an MBiochem in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and since joining the Civil Service has worked in policy and project delivery in areas ranging from automated vehicles to flood risk management.

Professor Serge Plattard

Deputy Director, Space Domain, UCL, University College London

Prior to his current position as deputy director of UCL’s Space Domain since November 2017, Serge was Senior Resident Fellow at ESPI since 2012, a European space policy think tank he started and ran in 2004, working on space governance, exploration policies, and space security. From 1998-2003, he was CNES’s director for international relations, then deputy director for strategy (2003-04).
A nuclear physicist for 12 years, he then turned to science & technology diplomacy, first at the French Ministry of External relations in 1981, and later as science & technology counsellor with French Embassies in India, Japan, US and UK.
He lectured in nuclear physics at Université d’Orsay, and in R&D innovation and technology economy at Université Paris-Dauphine, and at the French Business School ESSEC. He also lectures at UCL and at the International Space University in Strasbourg.
Serge authored/co-authored more than 60 publications and communications, and a book
He is a life member of the American Physical Society, founding member of Euroscience and member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is a Fellow of the French Institute for Advance Studies of National Defence (2004).
Serge is a Knight in the order of the Légion d’Honneur, and holds the Golden Rays in the order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan).

Squadron Leader (Ret'd) Ralph Dinsley

Director, Northern Space & Security Ltd

Sqn Ldr (Retd) Ralph “Dinz” Dinsley is a retired RAF officer with more than 32 years of active service as an Aerospace Battle Manager including 16 years as a surveillance of space practitioner and space situational awareness advocate. His final assignments included leading the RAF contribution to global SSA in 2 significant programmes. Dinz’s unique military experience is further underpinned, as a CAS Fellow, with an MA in Peace and Development from Leeds Metropolitan University; his dissertation covering "Critical Perspectives on UK Space Security". Since retirement from the military in September 2017 Dinz formed, and is now Executive Director of NorSS Ltd, an innovative Northumberland based SSA company. Additionally, he was one of the founding members of SAINTS (Situational Awareness Information National Technology Service) a group of NE tech companies developing SA for government, industry and academia. He is also an observer to the Hague Space Resource Governance Working Group.

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View detailsBlue Canyon TechnologiesSponsors and Exhibitorshttps://www.bluecanyontech.com/Blue Canyon Technologies is a leading provider of turnkey small satellite solutions, including nanosatellites, microsatellites, and ESPA-class. We specialize in precision pointing platforms based upon our high-performance attitude determination and control components. BCT’s highly experienced staff has developed low-cost, flight-proven, high-performance, high-reliability spacecraft systems and components that enable a wide range of missions for academic, commercial, and government applications. Our state-of-the-art spacecraft and subsystems are supporting LEO, GEO, Lunar, and interplanetary missions.

View detailsL3HarrisSponsors and Exhibitorshttp://L3Harris.comL3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue, 50,000 employees and customers in 130 countries. L3Harris is accelerating innovation and providing affordable solutions to fast forward to tomorrow. Learn more at L3Harris.com.

View detailsNumerica CorporationSponsors and Exhibitorshttp://www.numerica.usA leader in space situational awareness, Numerica operates a worldwide telescope network to help protect government and commercial satellites from hazards and threats. Offering real-time data products for decision support, we fuse third-party optical, radar, and passive-RF measurements, and we track objects in geosynchronous orbit during broad daylight using small telescopes. Numerica is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, and we are committed to the success of our customers, providing custom research and development services to meet the unique requirements of each system we support.

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View detailsArmada InternationalSupportershttp://armadainternational.comARMADA INTERNATIONAL is leading defence magazine which reports on and analyses defence systems, equipment and technology. Together with its Compendium supplements, ARMADA provides defence planners in the militaries, in government, in procurement and in the defence industry itself with the information they need to plan their strategies.

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Fortune 500 companies, US Congress and EU government bodies rely on our
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View detailsDefense ExpressSupportershttp://www.defense-ua.comLimited Liability Company “DEFENSE EXPRESS MEDIA AND CONSULTING” highlights events in security, defense and military cooperation areas. Regular information products of the company:
- Daily News Wire and Analysis on http://www.defense-ua.com;
- Weekly newsletter “Ukrainian Defense Survey”;
- “DEFENSE EXPRESS” Magazine;
- “Ukrainian Defense Review” Magazine (in English);
- Book series “Weapons of Ukraine”.
Company also provides advice and assistance based on deep analytical skills and knowledge of the conditions and characteristics of Ukrainian military market to companies, government bodies and intermediaries in the implementation of their strategy, relating to finding new partners and interests promoting.

View detailsEverything RFSupportershttp://www.everythingrf.comeverything RF - www.everythingRF.com keeps you up to date with the RF & Microwave Industry. We publish industry news, white papers and technical articles. We have the largest RF & Microwave product database on the internet which consists of product catalogs from over 500 Manufacturers.
Use parametric search tools to narrow down on products based on your requirement. Download datasheets, compare products and get quotations. Quotations are routed to the manufacturers (or their distributors) who get back to you with the details. Visit www.everythingRF.com to learn more.

View detailsGlobal Military CommunicationsSupportershttp://www.globalmilitarycommunications.comGlobal Military Communications is a publication that tracks the trends, drivers and technology that fuel the military communications sector. Communications continue to be the lynchpin of modern warfare and is crucial to any military campaign. The sector is going through unprecedented change as militaries and governments across the world move towards a network centric approach to their communications. From operations in war zones to homeland security and disaster recovery operations, Global Military Communications provides you with the latest communications developments on land, sea, and in the air.

View detailsinfoespacial.comSupportershttp://infoespacial.com/ie/The only independent specialized media, only and exclusively in the Space Industry, written in Spanish.
Spanish online media, aimed especially at the markets of Spain and Latin America, which allows industry professionals to obtain all the information available in this area easily and quickly.
Information updated daily to facilitate decision making of companies, institutions and users working in the attractive field of space.
Always seen image in an agile and dynamic platform with updated and documented information, which adopts the successful design of Infodefensa.com to address a segmented audience, in a specific and qualified niche market.
With two weekly newsletters that are sent to more than 1,000 registered subscribers, which include those responsible for space issues in the Administration, Embassies, Chambers of Commerce, ESA and other organizations and associations in the sector.

View detailsMILMAGSupportershttp://www.milmag.euMILMAG International is a monthly, online magazine. It covers developments in the defence and space industry, including presentations of new technology solutions as well as analysis of decisions taken by policymakers. Michal Jarocki is the Editor-in-Chief of MILMAG International. He has a year’s long experience in publishing stories and analyses in British, German and Polish press.

View detailsSatellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG)Supportershttp://www.suirg.orgSatellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG) is the global industry organisation, established to combat the increasing and costly problem of satellite radio frequency interference. It also as a group focuses on the future of satellite communication technology and the effects or issues of that technology relating to interference. IRG has a number of practical initiatives, all aimed at reducing satellite interference, including establishing Carrier ID, Training & Certification and Type Approvals. The group itself comprises working groups, chaired by key industry experts, charged with the task of establishing the practical initiatives and obtaining the support of the entire industry.

View detailsSatnews PublishersSupportershttp://www.satnews.comSatNews is a leading provider of satellite events, news, publications, research and other satellite industry information in the commercial and military enterprises worldwide.
SatNews hosts to the SmallSat Symposium and the Satellite Innovation conference, hosted in Silicon Valley.
SatNews include Daily and Weekly News Services and SatMagazine and MilsatMagazine, published monthly. satnews.com

View detailsSpace Data AssociationSupportershttp://www.space-data.orgThe Space Data Association Limited (SDA) is a non-profit international association of satellite operators that supports the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of data critical to the safety and integrity of the space environment and the RF spectrum. It maintains the Space Data Center, a database of high-accuracy orbital information, which is operated by Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) of Exton, PA. Established in the Isle of Man the SDA is open to all satellite operators and other participants. Its membership comprises many of the world’s major satellite communications companies Membership information can be found at www.space-data.org

View detailsSpace IT BridgeSupportershttps://www.spaceitbridge.com/Space IT Bridge is focused on helping business leaders and IT decision makers understand emerging business opportunities delivered by a growing number of space-based satellite networks. The site will track the business climate of this emerging and exciting market, including: standards debates, deployment case studies, new product launches, mergers and acquisitions, financial results and IPOs, and more.
Stories and other coverage in Space IT Bridge will help "New Space" companies how to leverage best practices in IT, such as open standards, open source, cloud computing, APIs, Big Data, analytics, and machine learning. At the same time, Space IT Bridge will help the IT and consumer worlds recognize and embrace new opportunities offered by cubesats, imaging, and low earth orbit (LEO) satellite clouds.

View detailsSpace NewsSupportershttp://www.spacenews.comSince 1989, SpaceNews has provided decision-makers throughout the industry with timely and comprehensive space and satellite news, giving them the competitive intelligence they need to succeed. Whether it's the latest trend in military space capabilities, the next space mission or breaking developments in satellite telecommunications, SpaceNews keeps them informed.

View detailsWorld Teleport AssociationSupportershttp://www.worldteleport.orgSince 1985, the World Teleport Association (WTA) has been the only trade association that focuses on the business of satellite communications from the ground up. At the core of its membership are the world's most innovative operators of teleports, from independents to multinationals, niche service providers to global carriers. WTA is dedicated to advocating for the interests of teleport operators in the global telecommunications market and promoting excellence in teleport business practice, technology and operations. Companies that do business with teleports also find that WTA is the best investment they can make to open new channels to the industry.

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Blue Canyon Technologies

Blue Canyon Technologies is a leading provider of turnkey small satellite solutions, including nanosatellites, microsatellites, and ESPA-class. We specialize in precision pointing platforms based upon our high-performance attitude determination and control components. BCT’s highly experienced staff has developed low-cost, flight-proven, high-performance, high-reliability spacecraft systems and components that enable a wide range of missions for academic, commercial, and government applications. Our state-of-the-art spacecraft and subsystems are supporting LEO, GEO, Lunar, and interplanetary missions.

Numerica Corporation

A leader in space situational awareness, Numerica operates a worldwide telescope network to help protect government and commercial satellites from hazards and threats. Offering real-time data products for decision support, we fuse third-party optical, radar, and passive-RF measurements, and we track objects in geosynchronous orbit during broad daylight using small telescopes. Numerica is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, and we are committed to the success of our customers, providing custom research and development services to meet the unique requirements of each system we support.

Media Partners

Everything RF

everything RF - www.everythingRF.com keeps you up to date with the RF & Microwave Industry. We publish industry news, white papers and technical articles. We have the largest RF & Microwave product database on the internet which consists of product catalogs from over 500 Manufacturers.
Use parametric search tools to narrow down on products based on your requirement. Download datasheets, compare products and get quotations. Quotations are routed to the manufacturers (or their distributors) who get back to you with the details. Visit www.everythingRF.com to learn more.

Satnews Publishers

SatNews is a leading provider of satellite events, news, publications, research and other satellite industry information in the commercial and military enterprises worldwide.
SatNews hosts to the SmallSat Symposium and the Satellite Innovation conference, hosted in Silicon Valley.
SatNews include Daily and Weekly News Services and SatMagazine and MilsatMagazine, published monthly. satnews.com

Defense Express

Limited Liability Company “DEFENSE EXPRESS MEDIA AND CONSULTING” highlights events in security, defense and military cooperation areas. Regular information products of the company:
- Daily News Wire and Analysis on http://www.defense-ua.com;
- Weekly newsletter “Ukrainian Defense Survey”;
- “DEFENSE EXPRESS” Magazine;
- “Ukrainian Defense Review” Magazine (in English);
- Book series “Weapons of Ukraine”.
Company also provides advice and assistance based on deep analytical skills and knowledge of the conditions and characteristics of Ukrainian military market to companies, government bodies and intermediaries in the implementation of their strategy, relating to finding new partners and interests promoting.

infoespacial.com

The only independent specialized media, only and exclusively in the Space Industry, written in Spanish.
Spanish online media, aimed especially at the markets of Spain and Latin America, which allows industry professionals to obtain all the information available in this area easily and quickly.
Information updated daily to facilitate decision making of companies, institutions and users working in the attractive field of space.
Always seen image in an agile and dynamic platform with updated and documented information, which adopts the successful design of Infodefensa.com to address a segmented audience, in a specific and qualified niche market.
With two weekly newsletters that are sent to more than 1,000 registered subscribers, which include those responsible for space issues in the Administration, Embassies, Chambers of Commerce, ESA and other organizations and associations in the sector.

Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG)

Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG) is the global industry organisation, established to combat the increasing and costly problem of satellite radio frequency interference. It also as a group focuses on the future of satellite communication technology and the effects or issues of that technology relating to interference. IRG has a number of practical initiatives, all aimed at reducing satellite interference, including establishing Carrier ID, Training & Certification and Type Approvals. The group itself comprises working groups, chaired by key industry experts, charged with the task of establishing the practical initiatives and obtaining the support of the entire industry.

Space News

Since 1989, SpaceNews has provided decision-makers throughout the industry with timely and comprehensive space and satellite news, giving them the competitive intelligence they need to succeed. Whether it's the latest trend in military space capabilities, the next space mission or breaking developments in satellite telecommunications, SpaceNews keeps them informed.

Space Data Association

The Space Data Association Limited (SDA) is a non-profit international association of satellite operators that supports the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of data critical to the safety and integrity of the space environment and the RF spectrum. It maintains the Space Data Center, a database of high-accuracy orbital information, which is operated by Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) of Exton, PA. Established in the Isle of Man the SDA is open to all satellite operators and other participants. Its membership comprises many of the world’s major satellite communications companies Membership information can be found at www.space-data.org

MILMAG

MILMAG International is a monthly, online magazine. It covers developments in the defence and space industry, including presentations of new technology solutions as well as analysis of decisions taken by policymakers. Michal Jarocki is the Editor-in-Chief of MILMAG International. He has a year’s long experience in publishing stories and analyses in British, German and Polish press.

Airforce Technologies

Used daily as means of creating partnerships and as a point of reference by professionals within the air force industry, this comprehensive resource supplies the latest news releases, detailed information on industry projects, white papers, event information and a thorough breakdown of products and services.

Aerospace Technology

Leading aerospace organisations use Aerospace-technology.com on a daily basis to ensure they keep up to date with the latest industry specific news and developments. As a result, Aerospace-technology.com attracts a high quality and loyal user base of the most influential decision makers and aerospace industry leaders. For more information please contact antonio.rossi@verdict.co.uk or call +44 207 936 6806

21st Century Asian Arms Race

21st Century Asian Arms Race (21AAR) is an online resource for conflict and security related information specific to Eurasia. 21AAR's editorial style and open source approach to gathering public intelligence ensures a unique and independent presentation of events in real-time.

Armada International

ARMADA INTERNATIONAL is leading defence magazine which reports on and analyses defence systems, equipment and technology. Together with its Compendium supplements, ARMADA provides defence planners in the militaries, in government, in procurement and in the defence industry itself with the information they need to plan their strategies.

Global Military Communications

Global Military Communications is a publication that tracks the trends, drivers and technology that fuel the military communications sector. Communications continue to be the lynchpin of modern warfare and is crucial to any military campaign. The sector is going through unprecedented change as militaries and governments across the world move towards a network centric approach to their communications. From operations in war zones to homeland security and disaster recovery operations, Global Military Communications provides you with the latest communications developments on land, sea, and in the air.

World Teleport Association

Since 1985, the World Teleport Association (WTA) has been the only trade association that focuses on the business of satellite communications from the ground up. At the core of its membership are the world's most innovative operators of teleports, from independents to multinationals, niche service providers to global carriers. WTA is dedicated to advocating for the interests of teleport operators in the global telecommunications market and promoting excellence in teleport business practice, technology and operations. Companies that do business with teleports also find that WTA is the best investment they can make to open new channels to the industry.

Space IT Bridge

Space IT Bridge is focused on helping business leaders and IT decision makers understand emerging business opportunities delivered by a growing number of space-based satellite networks. The site will track the business climate of this emerging and exciting market, including: standards debates, deployment case studies, new product launches, mergers and acquisitions, financial results and IPOs, and more.
Stories and other coverage in Space IT Bridge will help "New Space" companies how to leverage best practices in IT, such as open standards, open source, cloud computing, APIs, Big Data, analytics, and machine learning. At the same time, Space IT Bridge will help the IT and consumer worlds recognize and embrace new opportunities offered by cubesats, imaging, and low earth orbit (LEO) satellite clouds.

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WHAT IS CPD?

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy,
which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and
structured. The most common definition is:

‘A commitment to structured skills and knowledge enhancement for Personal or Professional
competence’

CPD is a common requirement of individual membership with professional bodies and
Institutes. Increasingly, employers also expect their staff to undertake regular
CPD activities.

Undertaken over a period of time, CPD ensures that educational qualifications do
not become obsolete, and allows for best practice and professional standards to
be upheld.

CPD can be undertaken through a variety of learning activities including instructor
led training courses, seminars and conferences, e:learning modules or structured
reading.

CPD AND PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTES

There are approximately 470 institutes in the UK across all industry sectors, with
a collective membership of circa 4 million professionals, and they all expect their
members to undertake CPD.

For some institutes undertaking CPD is mandatory e.g. accountancy and law, and linked
to a licence to practice, for others it’s obligatory. By ensuring that their members
undertake CPD, the professional bodies seek to ensure that professional standards,
legislative awareness and ethical practices are maintained.

CPD Schemes often run over the period of a year and the institutes generally provide
online tools for their members to record and reflect on their CPD activities.

TYPICAL CPD SCHEMES AND RECORDING OF CPD (CPD points and hours)

Professional bodies and Institutes CPD schemes are either structured as ‘Input’
or ‘Output’ based.

‘Input’ based schemes list a precise number of CPD hours that individuals must achieve
within a given time period. These schemes can also use different ‘currencies’ such
as points, merits, units or credits, where an individual must accumulate the number
required. These currencies are usually based on time i.e. 1 CPD point = 1 hour of
learning.

‘Output’ based schemes are learner centred. They require individuals to set learning
goals that align to professional competencies, or personal development objectives.
These schemes also list different ways to achieve the learning goals e.g. training
courses, seminars or e:learning, which enables an individual to complete their CPD
through their preferred mode of learning.

As a formal provider of CPD certified activities, SMI Group can provide an indication
of the learning benefit gained and the typical completion. However, it is ultimately
the responsibility of the delegate to evaluate their learning, and record it correctly
in line with their professional body’s or employers requirements.

GLOBAL CPD

Increasingly, international and emerging markets are ‘professionalising’ their workforces
and looking to the UK to benchmark educational standards. The undertaking of CPD
is now increasingly expected of any individual employed within today’s global marketplace.

CPD Certificates

We can provide a certificate for all our accredited events. To request a CPD certificate for a conference , workshop, master classes you have attended please email events@smi-online.co.uk